CENTER FOR ECOLITERACY

It all began in 2008 when I was attending a seminar in New York:”Rethinking Food, Health, and the Environment: Making LearningConnections”
“Rethinking Food, Health and Environment: Making LearningConnections”

coordinated by the Columbia University Teachers College and the Center for Ecoliteracy.

They were intense days of lectures, workshops and a deep learningwithin this area of ​​education, health, food, school.

Since then contact with the Center for Ecoliteracy is maintained andwhere possible we are updating about projects, activities andpublications that are happening to them.

At the beginning of 2011 I had the opportunity to visit the Center’s offices, located in the award-winning David Brower Center, a home for environmental and social action in Berkeley, California.

About the Center for Ecoliteracy (and here I choose to give you their own words)

Smart by Nature™, the Center’s framework and services for schooling for sustainability, is based on two decades of work with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries.

The Center is best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula.

The Center for Ecoliteracy offers books; teaching guides; professional development seminars; a sustainability leadership academy; keynote presentations; and consulting services. Among its books for educators, parents, and other people interested in sustainability are:

Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (foreword by Daniel Goleman);

Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (foreword by David W. Orr);

The Center’s work has been praised by numerous organizations, including the National Science Teachers Association, National Wildlife Federation, North American Association for Environmental Education, and Participant Media, producers of the Academy Award nominee Food, Inc.

The Center for Ecoliteracy was cofounded by Fritjof Capra, physicist and systems thinker; Peter Buckley, former CEO of Esprit International and environmental philanthropist; and Zenobia Barlow, now its executive director.

The Center’s website offers hundreds of downloadable resource materials, including practical guides, essays by leading writers and experts, and inspiring stories of school communities and organizations across the country that are engaged in this vital work.